Women in the countryside: The announced 100 euros of aid has not yet arrived

Today is the International Day of Rural Women, and it was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2008.

In Serbia, the women in the countryside welcomed him as they did in who knows how many years before: every other woman is unemployed even though she works from morning to morning. Farms and families depend mainly on them and their work.

More than half of rural women do not have the right to a pension, and 36 percent of them renounce their inheritance in favor of male relatives.

According to data from the 2011 Census. women are the owners of only 17,3 percent of farms in Serbia - there are 106.946 women owners of farms compared to 510.419 men. According to the same data, 84 percent of women do not own land.

The Deputy Prime Minister and President of the Coordinating Body for Gender Equality, Zorana Mihajlović, promised today the initiative to adopt a special Action Plan for the economic empowerment of women from rural areas.

"Dear women from the countryside, you are support and potential for better social and economic development and preservation of Serbia's wealth, but also an incentive for future generations," said Mihajlović.

A year ago, also on the Day of Rural Women, the Minister for Rural Care and the President of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS) announced that the year 2022 will be "a sign of the struggle for a social guaranteed pension".

"Our task as a society as a whole is to make it possible in the coming period to everyone over the age of 65, among whom the majority are women and those from the countryside, will become beneficiaries of a social, guaranteed pension," said the Minister for Rural Care and co-president of the National Team for the Revival of the Village of Serbia, Milan Krkobabić.

Krkobabić repeated the same initiative several times, but there is still no official proposal for a legal solution.

It is expected that the new Government could deal with it.

S.Ć./RTS/BBC in Serbian

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